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Chapter 202: Tommen's Decision

Slowly walking up to Cersei, looking at this sister who had disliked him since childhood and believed that he had taken their mother's life, Tyrion was silent for a while, tidied Cersei's clothes and then returned to Daenerys.

"Your Majesty!"

Jorah walked in from the door, looked at Cersei sitting on the chair with some surprise, and called out Daenerys.

After coming in, Jorah and Daario led people to search the entire Red Castle separately. Seeing Jorah coming, Daenerys led people out of the room.

Just after they walked out of the room, a man came out from the corner. He had a big bald head, wore a loose robe, and had his hands in his sleeves.

"Your Majesty!" said the bald man, and bowed deeply to Daenerys.

Daenerys glanced at Tyrion and saw him nod, confirming her thoughts, then she walked over to Varys and helped him up.

"Thank you for your hard work, Varys!"

Hiding deep in King's Landing, risking being discovered by Cersei, he has been providing himself with news of Slaver's Bay and Westeros.

Daenerys no longer has any resentment towards Varys. All she has left is gratitude for his hard work. Now Varys has finally returned to the team with success.

Looking up, Varys nodded to Drogon first, then looked at Tyrion, Jorah and others behind Daenerys.

Tyrion nodded slightly. Jorah looked at Varys and seemed a little surprised. He was stunned for a moment before nodding slightly.

"His Majesty..."

After greeting everyone, Varys quietly reported the situation in King's Landing to Daenerys.

Daenerys nodded as she listened, and five minutes later she came to an oak door. She pushed it open, revealing a super hall that could accommodate a thousand people.

The hall faces south and at the end of the road paved with luxurious carpets, a throne made of countless black iron swords stands on a high platform.

Walking on the carpet and looking at the layout of the hall, it gradually overlapped with the scene in the illusion of the Immortal Temple.

The difference is that there is no more ashes and a broken dome.

He walked up to the platform, stroked the iron handrails and sharp chair backs, just as he had done in the illusion, and then left the illusion hall.

This time, Daenerys simply walked around the Iron Throne and then sat on it. The hard seat did not make her feel any discomfort. It was almost the same feeling as sitting on Drogon's back.

Seeing Daenerys sit down, Barristan and Missandei followed her up to the platform and stood on Daenerys's left and right.

Tyrion, Jorah and others stood on both sides of the carpet below the stage, and Jorah nodded to the guards at the door.

Two minutes later, a group of people slowly walked in from outside the oak door. They were men, women, young and old, but all dressed in gorgeous clothes.

Walking in front was a young, blond, round-faced boy. He glanced around the hall and then looked curiously at Daenerys sitting on the Iron Throne.

"She is more suitable to sit there than me!" There was no frustration in Tommen's eyes, only relief.

Behind Tommen, the delicate little rose Margaery walked in with a worried look on her face, supporting her grandmother Olenna.

Nodding to Tyrion, Olenna looked at the girl who was about the same age as her granddaughter sitting on the Iron Throne, the queen who was about to decide the fate of her family.

Daenerys has learned from Varys everything Olenna did during the siege of King's Landing, including what the Highgarden soldiers did just before the siege.

She hadn't figured out how to deal with the Tyrell family yet. She glanced at Olenna, stayed on Little Rose's face for a few seconds, and then turned her gaze behind the two of them.

Almost all of them are the patriarchs or backbones of the noble families in King's Landing. Cersei's uncle Kevan died in a battle outside Dragonstone and was not among them.

Looking at the young queen on the Iron Throne and the exquisite and majestic little dragon on her shoulder, the nobles who came in did not expect that the Dragon Queen, who had gone to the North to fight against the White Walkers, would come to King's Landing so soon.

Those who are well-informed already know the reason why Cersei tore up the armistice agreement. It is rumored that Daenerys angered the gods for some unknown reason, and the gods sent down oracles to attack her.

When they first heard the news, they all thought it was an excuse for Cersei and Cardinal High Sparrow to unilaterally tear up the armistice agreement.

When the information about miracles from the Great Cathedral and the Red Castle was slowly confirmed, they gradually came to believe that the Dragon Queen had really angered the gods and would face divine punishment.

But now the Dragon Queen, her black dragon and her ministers have entered the Red Castle safely, forcing them to doubt those miracles once again.

"Sitting before you is Stormborn... Daenerys Targaryen, Queen of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm!"

Seeing everyone standing still, Missandei introduced loudly. There were many missing titles like Liberator and Breaker of Shackles. This was all based on Tyrion's suggestions.

Those titles are more like foreign titles, and Daenerys has now come to Westeros. As a Targaryen dragon blood, she should follow the customs of Westeros and remove some impressions that make Daenerys look like a foreigner invading Westeros.

This will make it easier for the nobles and civilians of the Seven Kingdoms to accept the rule of Queen Daenerys.

Glancing at the crowd below the stage, Daenerys raised her chin slightly and said, "Submit to me, and I will spare your lives!"

All the people in the audience had sent troops to fight against her before. Except for Tommen, some of the others were forced to do so due to the situation. Daenerys did not want to kill them. After all, she came to take back the Iron Throne, not purely for revenge.

As soon as Daenerys finished her words, the crowd immediately started to stir.

After Daenerys arrived at Dragonstone, Cersei gave a mobilization speech, recounting to them the atrocities Daenerys had committed in Slaver's Bay.

She once nailed more than a hundred slave owners in Meereen to the wooden racks. If she breaks through King's Landing, the civilians may not suffer much loss, but the nobles will definitely not have a good life.

Before being captured, they had already given up hope of surviving and only wanted to plead with the new queen to spare their family. Now Daenerys' words gave them hope of survival again.

"I am willing to surrender!" Just as everyone was still whispering, a familiar voice suddenly spoke first.

He took a step forward and spoke frankly of his surrender. There was not a trace of frustration on Tommen's face as a king of a fallen country should have, which surprised everyone including Daenerys and Tyrion.

Tyrion was surprised to see his nephew choose to surrender so quickly and had that unexpected expression. Looking at Tommen again, he was no longer the shy little boy since childhood. Although he had been living under the shadow of his mother after becoming king, he had grown a lot.

Margaery, who was talking in a low voice with her grandmother, looked up at her husband Tommen in surprise when she heard his words. Is this still the little husband whom she had always coaxed?

Tommen's leading surrender also greatly surprised the nobles behind him. They all stopped talking and looked at the queen on the Iron Throne, wanting to hear how she would treat the surrender of Tommen, the defeated monarch.

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